Global architecture
... describe the global architecture ...
The list of all the modules is given in ApacheDS v1.0 modules
Frontend
Mina
Data structure
ASN.1 decoding
The ASN.1 decoding is explained in ASN.1 codec
The server middleware
Interceptors
The interceptor mechanism page describes the way requests are processed by the server down to the backend
DN processing
In DN normalization and parsing we explain how a DN is parsed and normalized.
Backend
Configuration
The configuration is contained in the server.xml file. What we don't have in this file is the following elements, which are currently statically declared :
- Authenticators : they are used to authenticate a user.